Cameroon take 1st spot in Africa from Côte d'Ivoire, with Algeria taking 4th place. Algeria are now 2nd in the Arab World, one place behind Egypt and could get 1st place with a good result in Cairo next month.

Honduras - 3rd in CONCACAF at the expense of Costa Rica. Trinidad and Tobago drop from the top 5, replaced by Canada.

Russia out of the UEFA top 5, replaced by England.

Seven teams will improve their best ever ranking:

Algeria (29th - 30th in September 1993)Latvia (47th - 51st in December 2003)Benin (66th - 78th in September 2009)Montenegro (75th - 89th in September 2009)Barbados (92nd - 93rd in June 2000)Philippines (155th - 157th in November 2008)Mongolia (172nd - 173rd in July 2007)

Two teams will return to their worst ever ranking:

Mauritius (183rd - first achieved in August 2009)British Virgin Islands (193rd - first achieved in January 2008)

Seven teams will have their worst ever ranking:

Romania (36th - 35th in August 2004)Morocco (63rd - 57th in September 2009)Zambia (96th - 92nd in February 2009)Zimbabwe (131st - 120th in August 2009)Liberia (160th - 153rd in October 2008)Tahiti (194th - 191st in July 2009)Andorra (202nd - 196th in May 2009)

5 comments:

If either Portugal or France fails to qualify for the World Cup, and seeing that croatia has already crashed out, would the U.S. be able to pass these countries with a friendly win over Denmark coming up? Also...how did the U.S. stay at the same rank as last month? With a 2-1 home win over El Salvador, 1-0 @ Trinidad and 3-2 @ fellow World Cup participant Honduras, all WC Qualifying matches. PLUS a 2-2 draw with Costa Rica. 3-0-1 in World Cup qualifying how do you not move up?

Geez, why the drastic drop for Serbia losing to a meaningless game to Lithuania and dropping down to 20th place?I don't get this FIFA system they use to rank teams, I just don't get it.Croatia still up there? This is a joke for ranking teams.

true, those wins arnt over the likes of top 25 teams...i understand. But they are wins in qualifying, something Argentina, who is ranked ahead of us, has not been doing so much of. Or lets say croatia, who didnt make the world cup. The fact is, we are one of the few teams in the top 15 who did not lose any games during this ranking period. I dont think croatia is deserving of a higher ranking that the U.S. The U.S. is not only a stronger squad, but has had better results over the past year, AND qualified for the world cup. I know they are in UEFA, and we are in CONCACAF, but honestly...few will can honestly say croatia is better than the United States.